{"id":667344,"date":"2026-05-27T04:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/667344\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T04:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:17:09","slug":"cooper-hoffman-set-to-lead-hulu-drama-pilot-durango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/667344\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Hoffman Set To Lead Hulu Drama Pilot &#8216;Durango&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cooper-hoffman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cooper-hoffman\" data-tag=\"cooper-hoffman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper Hoffman<\/a> has been cast as the lead of the new <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hulu\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hulu\" data-tag=\"hulu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hulu<\/a> drama pilot <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/durango\/\" id=\"auto-tag_durango\" data-tag=\"durango\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Durango<\/a> from writer\u00a0Eliza Clark\u00a0(FX\u2019s\u00a0Y: The Last Man), 20th Television, and Media Res.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe pilot follows Hoffman\u2019s character Mikey, a ski bum townie chasing a buzz. Bunny is a homeschooled runaway working as a greasy-spoon waitress. Together they\u2019re riding an avalanche of bad decisions and falling in love while running from cops, criminals, and Mikey\u2019s wife in pursuit of their own American dream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFurther details on the character of Mikey: After an injury ruins his Olympic dreams, Mikey, an easy-going and street-savvy local snowboarding legend, pays his rent the old-fashioned way, by agreeing to a green card marriage. Secretly, he yearns for more, and when he falls for newcomer Bunny, he unwittingly gets pulled into something far more dangerous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tClark executive produces with Media Res\u2019 Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHoffman will next star in Gregg Araki\u2019s\u00a0psychosexual thriller,\u00a0I Want Your Sex, opposite Olivia Wilde. Additionally, he stars in Maude Apatow\u2019s Poetic License, Luca Guadagnino\u2019s feature, Artificial, and A24\u2019s The Chaperones. Hoffman is known for his breakout role in Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s feature,\u00a0Licorice Pizza, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award.\u00a0He most recently starred in Francis Lawrence\u2019s The Long Walk and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his performance. He is represented by WME.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper Hoffman has been cast as the lead of the new Hulu drama pilot Durango from writer\u00a0Eliza Clark\u00a0(FX\u2019s\u00a0Y:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[27730,78894,88,10028],"class_list":["post-667344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cooper-hoffman","tag-durango","tag-entertainment","tag-hulu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}